Word Meaning

patients definition and meaning

a. Having the quality of enduring; physically able to suffer or bear.
a. Undergoing pains, trails, or the like, without murmuring or fretfulness; bearing up with equanimity against trouble; long-suffering.
a. Constant in pursuit or exertion; persevering; calmly diligent; as, patient endeavor.
a. Expectant with calmness, or without discontent; not hasty; not overeager; composed.
a. Forbearing; long-suffering.
n. ONe who, or that which, is passively affected; a passive recipient.
n. A person under medical or surgical treatment; -- correlative to physician or nurse.
v. t. To compose, to calm.

Crossword clues for patients

- Best tempered
- Job – like one in a hospital
- Sick person
- Tolerant
- Convalescents
- Hospital inmates
- Hospital inmates have the ability to endure delays, apparently
- Long-suffering nurses ultimately ill people
- Solitaire mentioned to ward occupants